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IE3 Core Friday: Lesson 6

5/17/2015

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Hi everyone,

What a beautiful day today! I hope you can enjoy the sunshine during your breaks.

In-text Citation:

After speed discussion, we learned to put direct quotes from your novels into your book reports. This is called in-text citation, and we use it to show when we are using ideas from other sources (e.g. like the characters in your novels, or from the author).

Also, we need to use in-text citation to avoid plagiarism (= copy somebody’s idea and claim it as your own).  If you use another person’s idea, you must tell the reader where you got that information.

1.  Direct Quote
When you use a direct quote, you are quoting the information directly from your novel.  For example:

By the end of his adventure, Santiago realizes that "the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself" (Coelho 73).

This tells us that "the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself" is a sentence from the novel by the author Coelho, and this information is on page 73. 


MLA Referencing:
We also learned how to write down the source information from your graded readers.  This is called MLA Referencing.  For most of your references, you need to use this format.

Author. Title. City of Publication: Publisher, year.

The Secret Garden
Make sure to meet me in front of the theater at 6:40pm and I'll give you your ticket. We'll be sitting in a group in the theater. Please don't forget the map from class, or you can check the map on your phones - justclick on this link for the map: IE Field Trip map

Discussions:
For next week's discussions, remember these points:
  1. Follow-up Questions. When your group leader or group member makes a comment. Ask a follow-up question. This question asks the speaker to give more information.

Homework:
1.  Discussion Preparation
2.  Blog Post #6
3.  Complete Book Report #1
  • use the Book Report template on the website in the Reading-Book Report section
  • type your book report
  • email your book report to me by Friday, May 22 by 12:00noon to ntakeda.aogaku@yahoo.com
**NO JOURNAL ENTRY THIS WEEK!


Blog Question #6:

What did you think about our field trip to see the musical The Secret Garden (interesting and/or suprising observations)?


  • Write 8-10 sentences.
  • Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
  • Submit by Thursday, May 21 by 6:00pm.
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IE3 Core Friday: Lesson 5

5/8/2015

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Hi everyone,

I hope everyone had a great Golden Week vacation, and you're well-rested for a busy May.

Irony:
At the beginning of our lesson, we continued with literary terms. We started with situational irony.  This type of irony occurs when the outcome of an event or situation is the opposite of what is expected.  The result can range from the humorous to the tragic. We completed a short pair activity on making our own ironic endings.

T
heme:
We then moven onto literary terms, and looked at theme.  The theme of a novel is the message from the author.  This is what he/she wants you to learn or the main character to learn.  You can ask yourself these questions when thinking about the theme:
  1. What does the author want me to learn?
  2. What do the events teach the main character?

Checking Understanding:
Before our discussions, we reviewed expressions that you can use to check your group's understanding. You can use these expressions;
a.  Are you following me?
b.  Are there any questions?
c.  Do you understand?

Also, when you don't understand during a discussion, you can ask these questions:
a.  Can you explain that again?
b.  What was that again?
c.  What does ... mean? (when you don't know a word)

Homework:
1.  Discussion preparation
2.  Journal Topic #5:
  • volunteer / part-time work experiences
3.  Blog Comment #5
4.  Choose essay questions for book report
5.  Secret Garden Literary Terms (irony)

Secret Garden Field Trip:
Next week, on Thursday and Friday, we'll be going to the musical The Secret Garden. In Friday's lesson, I'll give your the map and directions. However, for the students going on Thursday (Misa, Minako and Yo), please click on this link for the map to the theater.

Map to Shinjuku Theater

Please meet in front of the theater at 6:40pm. I'll be there with students from another course. If you arrive after 7:00pm, it won't be possible to enter the theater until the intermission (=break).


Blog Question #5:

  1. What are two symbols in your graded reader? Remember to explain the surface meaning and the deeper meaning.

  2. What are two themes in your graded reader?

  • Write 8-10 sentences.
  • Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
  • Submit by Thursdayday, May 14 by 6:00pm.
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IE 3 Core Friday: Lesson 2

4/17/2015

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Hi everyone,

It's only our second lesson, but it was just as busy as our first one. Just one more day, and you can all say TGIF!

The Secret Garden and Literary Terms:
After speed discussion, we had a quiz on chapters1-8 of The Secret Garden. Remember to finished read the rest of th story for next week. We will be using it in class for all of April.

We also had a short activity that introduced literary terms.  You will have to analyze each of these terms for your book reports.  In today's class, we learned about (1) the point of view; and (b) the protagonist.

Discussion Leading:
Before we started our discussions, we went through the procedure for leading a discussion. We also looked at the criteria that I will use to evaluate your discussions each week. 

Group Discussions:
You did a good job at giving your opinions and asking for the opinions of your other group members. However, remember these points to improve your discussions next week:
  1. Pronunciaton practice. Make sure you have a pronunciation practice after you teacher your vocabulary to your group. Make your group say each new word 4-5 times. In order to remember the word, you need to know how to say it.
  2. Use conversation style.  In a discussion, all participants are responsible for making it successful.  When a group member gives his/her opinion, the leader and the other members have to make comments on that opinion.  Participants do not have to wait to be invited to give a comment - just "jump into" the discussion.

Journal:
You exchanged journals with your writing parter.  You will keep your partner's journal this week and write 3 pages in your partner's journal:
a.  one page of comments on your partner's writing
b.  two pages on this week's new topic

Homework:
1.  Discussion preparation (see schedule)
2.  Journal entry #2:  langauge learning experiences
3.  Read Graded Reader (15+ pages)
4.  The Secret Garden (ch. 8-15)
  • Quiz on your reading next week!
5.  Blog posting #2
6.  Choose your Book Report essay questions
7.  Bring 2500 円 for the musical

Blog Question #2:
Choose one of the topics below. Give your opinion on the topic. Use an opinion giving expression, and give a reason and an example to support your opinion.

Remember to start your opinion with an opinion expressions (e.g. In my opinion, ... / As I see it, ...)


* the most annoying thing
(In my opinion, the most annoying thing is ...)

* the best Japanese food
(As I see it, the best Japanese food is...)

* learning languages
(If you ask me, learning languages is ...)

* living in Tokyo
(I think living in Tokyo is...)

* smart phones

(In my opinion, smart phones are...)


* Write 8-10 sentences.
* Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
* Submit by Thursday, April 23 by 6:00pm.

FIELD TRIP:
Please make sure to bring 2500円 next week for your ticket for our theater field trip. 
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IE 3 Core Friday: Lesson 1

4/9/2015

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Hi everyone!

TGIF!! It was really great to meet all of you today.  I'm really looking forward to our lessons this semester.

Syllabus and Schedule:
We had a short introduction activity and you got to get to know each other. We then went looked at the syllabus and our course schedule. We have a lot of assignments to do this semester, so if you have any difficulties, make sure you let me know so that I can help you.

Opinion Giving:
We had a short activity to help you learn some expressions for asking for and giving your opinion. Make sure to support your opinion with a reason and/or example. 

We also learned expressions for agreeing and disagreeing with opinions. The expression "Tell me about it!" is a slang expression, and it is used to show strong agreement.

Discussion Worksheet:
We learned how to complete a discussion worksheet. You will have to download the worksheet and complete it before your discussion. In the Discussion Skills section, you can find the slide presentation from our lesson "How to Complete your Worksheet". There are also links to different English language newspaper sites in the Useful Links section. 

Field Trip:
We'll be going on a theater field trip  to see the musical production of The Secret Garden. Some of you will go on Thursday, May 15 and other on Friday, May 15. I will reserve the tickets for us, so make sure to bring 2500 for your ticket to next week's class. I'll collect the money and pay for the tickets.

Homework:
  1. Journal entry #1: your spring break
  2. Choose a graded reader and bring it to class.
  3. Discussions (see schedule)
  4. Blog Posting #1
  5. Read The Secret Garden (chapters 1-8)

Enjoy your weekend!

Blog Question #1:

Choose one of the topics below. Give your opinion on the topic. Use an opinion giving expression, and give a reason and an example to support your opinion.

smoking in public
high school uniforms
2020 Tokyo Olympics
traveling overseas
today's Oral English lesson
Aogaku Shibuya campus


* Write 8-10 sentences.
* Use capital letters, punctuation and spelling correctly.
* Submit by Thursday, April 16 by 6:00pm.

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